The Geography of Religious Diversity in the United States

Warf, Barney; Winsberg, Mort

doi:10.1080/00330120802046786

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“…Nonmetropolitan Americans are also more likely than those living in metropolitan areas to be “Born-again,” which are individuals that tend to adhere to evangelical religions, and are more likely to express a biblically conservative stance on social and moral issues (Dillon and Savage 2006). A recent study reported that religious diversity is spatially clustered in the US (Warf and Winsberg 2008). Specifically, the most diverse regions include those counties in the Pacific Northwest, Denver area, Pittsburgh, and central Florida.…”

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“…Given that teenage women with a religious affiliation are less likely to become sexually active prior to marriage than their nonreligious counterparts (Brewster et al 1998), we hypothesize (H4) higher religiosity in a county is associated with a lower TBR and in the counties where the religious diversity is high ( Warf and Winsberg 2008 ) the association between religiosity and TBR will be weaker. Since nonmetropolitan Americans are more likely to be frequent church-goers compared to those living in metropolitan areas (Dillon and Savage 2006), we predict that (H5) the association between religiosity and TBR to be stronger in nonmetropolitan compared to metropolitan areas .…”

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Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States

Shoff¹,

Yang²

2012

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation’s youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage birth rate (TBR) across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas is important, because these differences may reflect modifiable ecological-level influences such as education, employment, laws, healthcare infrastructure, and policies that could potentially reduce the TBR. OBJECTIVES The goals of this study are to investigate whether there are spatially varying relationships between the TBR and the independent variables, and if so, whether these associations differ between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. METHODS We explore the heterogeneity within metropolitan/nonmetropolitan county groups separately using geographically weighted regression (GWR), and investigate the difference between metropolitan/nonmetropolitan counties using spatial regime models with spatial errors. These analyses were applied to county-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the US Census Bureau. RESULTS GWR results suggested that non-stationarity exists in the associations between TBR and determinants within metropolitan/nonmetropolitan groups. The spatial regime analysis indicated that the effect of socioeconomic disadvantage on TBR significantly varied by the metropolitan status of counties. CONCLUSIONS While the spatially varying relationships between the TBR and independent variables were found within each metropolitan status of counties, only the magnitude of the impact of the socioeconomic disadvantage index is significantly stronger among metropolitan counties than nonmetropolitan counties. Our findings suggested that place-specific policies for the disadvantaged groups in a county could be implemented to reduce TBR in the US.

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Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States

Shoff¹,

Yang²

2012

DemRes

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“…Regional differences in religiousness is not a specifically Polish phenomenon. It occurs, for example, in the United States (see Leonard 2006;Shortridge 1977;Warf and Winsberg 2008;Zelinsky 1961). It is important to note that it is independent of economic factors and based on differences in cultural settings (Kanagy, Firebaugh, and Nelsen 1994) of religious socialization and the specifically regional, historically shaped, construction of social norms, expectations, and pressures in the religious sphere (Ellison and Sherkat 1995;Stump 1986).…”

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Longitudinal Investigation of Religiosity Trajectories

Grygiel

Humenny²

2012

International Journal of Sociology

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This study examines patterns of change and stability in religious practices among Polish Catholics, based on a twenty-year longitudinal population-based study . Latent growth analysis confirms that the level of church attendance has decreased slightly, and this decrease is not the same for all respondents. Three different groups of trajectories can be distinguished: (a) 47.3 percent of participants are characterized by high levels and stability of church attendance; (b) 33.5 percent of respondents belong to a trajectory class characterized by a slightly lower initial level of attendance, which decreased; (c) 19.2 percent of participants are characterized by very low levels of initial church attendance and the most rapid decrease. The authors also identify a number of social and personal characteristics that predict belonging to different types of trajectories. Gender, age, place of residence, elementary school location, number of people in household, level of education, region of residence, and communist party membership predicted membership in three trajectory classes.

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“…Where churches are located has been an issue for (and a distinctive of) US megachurches (Proctor, 2006;Stump, 2008;Warf & Winsberg, 2008, 2010. The bulk of megachurches are located in the south and west.…”

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confidence: 99%